Sentences with phrase «water vapor content»

It occurs under precise conditions of temperature and water vapor content of the air.

One of the most substantial climate changes in response to global warming is the increase in atmospheric water vapor content.

The assumptions of increasing water vapor content from increased air temperature over water is not generally valid.

But on a plane, the low water vapor content and air pressure combined with more rapid breathing equals a need for more water.

Even models that correctly capture cloud behavior may fail to fully account for other climate feedbacks from factors like changing snow and sea ice cover, atmospheric water vapor content, and temperature.

However, whether the tropospheric water vapor content at all levels is positively correlated with the sea surface temperature is not clear.

In fact, since 1980 (the start of the data analyzed), an overall increase in stratospheric water vapor content as been responsible for perhaps 15 % of the overall temperature increase.

The argument begins by noting that the Clausius - Clapeyron equation, predicts a strong increase of boundary layer water vapor content with temperature (about 7 % per degree of warming); the increase of low level water vapor with temperature is not controversial, since oceanic boundary layers are in contact with their moisture source and stay rather near saturation.

The new theory presented in Miskolczi's paper shows that the atmosphere maintains a «saturated» greenhouse effect, controlled by water vapor content.

The National Space Development Agency of Japan contributed a microwave scanning radiometer to measure water vapor content and precipitation rates, and Brazil's space agency provided a device to measure atmospheric humidity.

The figure below shows various different estimates of stratospheric water vapor content, with the pre - and post-2001 periods highlighted.

Most climatologists expect that on average the atmospheres water vapor content will increase in response to surface warming caused by the long - lived greenhouse gases, further accelerating the overall warming trend.

Venus succumbed early to a «runaway water vapor greenhouse,» in which the increased water vapor content arising from increased temperature reached an end state with much of the ocean evaporated into the atmosphere.

Changes of humidity near the surface has little effect on the strength of the greenhouse effect as the high water vapor content already captures most of the long wave - length radiation, so relative humidity would not change much near the surface.

It's also pretty likely that the El Nino will bring some very damaging weather at various points, which will serve to remind us that flooding is something to respect and yes, fear, whether it's driven by El Nino or by increasing water vapor content due to global warming.

When there is a large - scale subsidence, the influence from the sea is restricted to a shallow boundary layer and the free tropospheric water vapor content and temperature are physically decoupled from the sea surface temperature underneath.

These issues, which are either not recognized at all in the assessments or are understated, include: - the identification of a warm bias in nighttime minimum temperatures - poor siting of the instrumentation to measure temperatures - the influence of trends in surface air water vapor content on temperature trends - the quantification of uncertainties in the homogenization of surface temperature data, and the influence of land use / land cover change on surface temperature trends.

«At very cold temperatures, the expansion cooling process starts in air that already has a low water vapor content.

The trend since 1948 of specific humidity (water vapor content of the atmosphere) from ground level to 300 mb was negative with warming.

If you reduce the water vapor content it should cool the climate globally.

The four satellites that now comprise the A-Train carry 15 instruments that measure different properties of the atmosphere, including temperature, water vapor content, the structure of clouds, and the distribution of greenhouse gases.

An Earth - like planet tends to increase its water vapor content as its mean temperature increases.

As the temperature rises, water vapor evaporates at a higher rate, raising the water vapor content of the atmosphere, further amplifying the the increased greenhouse effect of the additional carbon dioxide.

Sensitivity of atmospheric water vapor content to the parameters of this new representation of convection is also being evaluated through use of the so - called adjoint of the scheme.»

Has realclimate ever done (or considered doing) an entry about the immense contribution that satellite measurements have made in the past two - three decades, in helping us to understand various components of the earth system (e.g., vegetation, ozone, ice sheet mass, water vapor content, temperature, sea level height, storms, aerosols, etc.)?